Sentence examples for he desists from inspiring English sources

Mr Uribe risks looking as autocratic as his neighbour.Several of the president's closest allies may be hoping even more fervently that he desists.

Church officials have responded with warnings of more severe sanctions, with one Paraguayan bishop warning that he is "exposing himself to the punishment of excommunication" unless he desists.

He ceased and he desisted.

He desisted for a few minutes before he tried again, and again was crossly rejected.

He desisted when a close chum convinced him that a desire for a reformer's image would be undermined.

Nor has he desisted from targeted killings, some of which coincide eerily with moments when the extremist organisations say they are poised to cease fire.

This was contingent on events within the ANC, and for a long period he desisted from expressing himself on the matter, especially in view of the rivalry between Thabo Mbeki and Cyril Ramaphosa.

When she encountered Barbour after a labor meeting at which he made references to her, she told him that he wasn't running against her and requested that he desist.

Ibn Ḥanbal's unflinching spirit was beginning to have its effect upon the Caliph; but the latter's advisers warned that if he desisted from punishing him, he would be accused of having opposed the doctrine of his predecessor al-Maʾmūn, and the victory of Ibn Ḥanbal would have dire consequences on the reign of the caliphs.

Though he desisted when she told him that was not what she wanted, she accuses him of responding: "You want a job, right?".In this section Hunting for votes A black eye in the Buckeye Hints of a deal or a false dawn?

Now Alexander did attempt to lead an expedition p289 against these when he was in pursuit of Bessus9 and Spitamenes, but when Bessus was captured alive and brought back, and Spitamenes was slain by the barbarians, he desisted from his undertaking.